Marty Makary
speaker
939 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 13 May
Marty Makary’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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If you're going to manufacture your drug in the United States,
that's a national security issue, we're going to move your application to the front of the line.
If you're going to meet a large unmet public health need, we're going to move your application to the front of the line.
And if you're going to lower your prices to the point where we have the same good price that Europe and other wealthy countries have, what we call most favored nation status pricing, we're going to move your application to the front of the line.
So we can use economic incentives to actually advance prices
public health by leaps and bounds.
The operational challenge is aligning incentives, partnering with the industry, reminding them that our review is impeccably independent scientifically, but that we can partner with them to create a very easy user interface so that cures and meaningful treatments are not getting held up with needless bureaucracies and burdensome websites.
I think about morale every day, and it is overall very strong and getting stronger.
We are in a growth mode.
We are hiring nearly 1,000 scientific reviewers and inspectors.
We are changing the broken old legacy processes at the FDA so that we can do things efficiently and fast without cutting any corners.
on our thoroughness.
And I think people here have been hungry for it.
I can't tell you how many scientific reviewers come up to me on our beautiful campus and say, gosh, I love your new program to get a decision out in weeks.
I have an idea for it.
I want to be involved.
Take a drink real quick, please.
Okay, he's encouraging me to take a drink.
Marty Makary, Commissioner of the FDA.
Welcome to San Francisco.
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